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夫 — husband; man; manual worker

husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer

Pinyin
fū · fú
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — fū, fú — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 夫: 4 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

夫 — 4 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 夫 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 丈夫zhàngfuhusbandHSK 2
  2. 夫妻fūqīhusband and wife; married coupleHSK 3
  3. 大夫dàifudoctor; physicianHSK 4
  4. 功夫gōngfuskill; art; kung fu; labor; effortHSK 4
  5. 夫妇fūfùa couple; husband and wifeHSK 5
  6. 夫人fūrénlady; madam; Mrs.HSK 6
  7. 工夫gōngfuperiod of time; spare time; skill; labor; effortHSK 6
  8. 下功夫xià gōngfu—HSK 6

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.